Watch ¹  yourselves! If ²  your brother ³  sins, rebuke him. If ⁴  he repents, forgive him.

In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels ¹  over one sinner who repents.”

I tell you, in the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner ¹  who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people ²  who have no need to repent. ³ 

I have listened to them very carefully, ¹  but they do not speak honestly. None of them regrets the evil he has done. None of them says, “I have done wrong!” ²  All of them persist in their own wayward course ³  like a horse charging recklessly into battle.

But if that nation I threatened stops doing wrong, ¹  I will cancel the destruction ²  I intended to do to it.

Suppose I say to the wicked, ‘You must certainly die,’ but he turns from his sin and does what is just and right.